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Type Words
Synonyms commission, delegacy, deputation, mission
Type of organisation, organization
Has types diplomatic mission, embassy
Derivation delegate
Type Words
Synonyms delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation
Type of authorisation, authorization, empowerment
Has types devolution, devolvement
Derivation delegate

Examples of delegation

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A member of the South African delegation found a snake in a room at the village.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Kentucky's congressional delegation applauded the administration's announcement.
From the kentucky.com
Michelle Kotsagrelos led a delegation of 20 marchers dressed in ethnic costumes.
From the post-gazette.com
Members of the Chinese delegation immediately threw down their napkins and left.
From the latimes.com
With one vote for each state delegation, a handful of Wallaceites prove crucial.
From the time.com
He does not have a reputation for working with the state legislative delegation.
From the post-gazette.com
Lavrov blamed the U.S. delegation for slowing negotiations in the past few days.
From the chron.com
If they are, the Valley's congressional delegation should be tossed from office.
From the fresnobee.com
Michigan victory The Michigan delegation yesterday also had reason to celebrate.
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More examples
  • Deputation: a group of representatives or delegates
  • Delegating: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
  • (delegate) a person appointed or elected to represent others
  • (delegate) transfer power to someone
  • (delegate) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
  • Delegation (or deputation) is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. ...
  • Delegation was a British musical group with a long career, and an amount of international success. They are generally viewed in the U.S. as a one-hit wonder.
  • Delegation (Latin intercessio) is a term used in the law of contracts to describe the act of giving another person the responsibility of carrying out the performance agreed to in a contract. ...
  • In object-oriented programming there are two related notions of delegation. * Most commonly, it refers to a programming language feature making use of the method lookup rules for dispatching so-called self-calls as defined by Lieberman in his 1986 paper "Using Prototypical Objects to Implement ...